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||Axel Thue (d. 7 March 1922), was a Norwegian mathematician, known for highly original work in diophantine approximation, and combinatorics. He stated in 1914 the so-called word problem for semigroups or Thue problem, closely related to the halting problem. | ||Axel Thue (d. 7 March 1922), was a Norwegian mathematician, known for highly original work in diophantine approximation, and combinatorics. He stated in 1914 the so-called word problem for semigroups or Thue problem, closely related to the halting problem. | ||
||Ray Alden Kunze (b. March 7, 1928) was an American mathematician who chaired the mathematics departments at the University of California, Irvine and the University of Georgia. | ||Ray Alden Kunze (b. March 7, 1928) was an American mathematician who chaired the mathematics departments at the University of California, Irvine and the University of Georgia. His mathematical research concerned the representation theory of groups and noncommutative harmonic analysis. | ||
File:D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson.jpg|link=D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (nonfiction)|1937: [[D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (nonfiction)|D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson]] | File:D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson.jpg|link=D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (nonfiction)|1937: [[D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson (nonfiction)|D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson]] publishes new [[Gnomon algorithm function]] which translate forms into functions. | ||
File:Klaus Fuchs.jpg|link=Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|1950: Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that [[Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Klaus Fuchs]] served as a Soviet spy. | File:Klaus Fuchs.jpg|link=Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|1950: Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that [[Emil Julius Klaus Fuchs (nonfiction)|Klaus Fuchs]] served as a Soviet spy. | ||
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1765: Inventor Nicéphore Niépce born. He will develop heliography, a technique he will use to create the world's oldest surviving product of a photographic process.
1788: Physicist and academic Antoine César Becquerel born. He will pioneer the study of electric and luminescent phenomena.
1876: Alexander Graham Bell (nonfiction) is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone".
1875: Gambling Den Fight wins Royal Society award for most exciting new illustration of the year.
1886: Mathematician and physicist G. I. Taylor born. He will make major contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory.
1937: D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson publishes new Gnomon algorithm function which translate forms into functions.
1950: Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.